QPR have admitted a huge gaffe over their ticket allocation, a mistake which disappointed dozens of fans this week.

Rangers supporters waited in line on Friday and Monday for up to four hours, but were unable to buy the tickets they wanted because the club had handed over part of their allocation to the Ticketmaster agency.

The lucky few who got through to Ticketmaster were able to snap up the best seats.

Club chief executive David Davies conceded that demand for the most expensive seats in the Millennium Stadium had taken the club by surprise-He said: "We didn't think so many fans would want the &#xA3;42 seats.

"Although we were able to get back those seats from Ticketmaster within 24 hours, we are sorry that our patient supporters were inconvenienced."

One irate fan summed it up for those who were forced to settle for second best, saying: "We're the ones who queued all morning. And yet if I had known all I needed to do was pick up the phone, I could have saved myself the bother. The club should have made it clearer."